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Bungalow Modernity: A Study of Twentieth Century Fictions of Home

Bungalow Modernity: A Study of Twentieth Century Fictions of Home

Emery, Mary Lou

Paperback

Literary CriticismFilm StudiesGeneral Architecture

ISBN10: 1476680256
ISBN13: 9781476680255
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jul 15 2020
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformation, utopian social vision and even comedy. Originating in Bengal and adapted as housing for colonialist ventures worldwide, the homes were sold in mail-order kits during the bungalow mania of the early 20th century and enjoyed a revival at century's end. The bungalow as fictional setting stages ongoing contradictions of modernity--home and homelessness, property and dispossession, self and other--prompting a rethinking of our images of house and home. Drawing on the work of writers, architects and film directors, including Katherine Mansfield, E. M. Forster, Amitav Ghosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Willa Cather, Buster Keaton and Walter Mosley, this study offers new readings of the transcultural bungalow.

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